A poor pooch was electrocuted by a Con Edison-labeled live wire — just days after a New York grandmother fell to her death through an open manhole managed by the utility giant, The Post has learned.
The 3-year-old pup, Skylar, was being walked by her owner Wednesday along their regular path on East 76th Street, between First and Second Avenues, when she suddenly got zapped, the local dog mom said.
“She yelped in pain and jumped and kept jumping so she could get off the metal [cellar doors],” said the pup’s owner, who asked to only be identified by her first name, Lindsay.
“It was almost as if she was getting shocked every time her feet hit those doors,” the 35-year-old said, adding, “I just scooped her off the ground completely.”
Lindsay said she raced Skylar back to their nearby home, where she breathlessly watched over her for the rest of the night.
“It was really scary just watching her for the next couple of hours, like, ‘Are you breathing?’” she recalled.
Fortunately, Skylar didn’t need any medical attention and is on the mend, she said.
Similar incidents have ended tragically over the years: Great Dane-Boxer mix Lala suffered an excruciating death when she stepped on an electrically charged metal plate in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 2022.
The most terrifying part of the ordeal was how “normal” the wiring looked, prompting Lindsay to cross over them with Skylar as the pair had every night prior, she said.
The ConEd-labeled wires had been strewn across the sidewalk for at least a month, she noted.
“I feel incredibly lucky that she’s OK,” Lindsay said about her beloved pet.
“I called the emergency line. Unfortunately, they didn’t come for a few hours — a lot can happen in a few hours … It’s dangerous. The kids, the scooters go over it, anything could have happened,” she added.
ConEd said that its crews responded and secured the area by 10 p.m., before continuing to make repairs to the damaged cables until 3 a.m. The company didn’t say what damaged the wiring, when asked.
Crews were back Thursday, shutting down the street and ripping up the road to “repair your electrical system,” according to signs on the street blockade, that noted an estimated June 2 end date.
“We prioritize public safety and promptly dispatch electric crews to investigate any possible incidents of stray voltage,” a ConEd spokesperson said in a statement.
The incident comes just days after the horrific death of Donike Gocaj, 56, who plunged into an open Con Edison maintenance hole in Midtown on Monday night.
The Westchester grandmother fell after stepping out of her parked car — and hauntingly screamed “I’m dying” as bystanders frantically tried to help her before first responders arrived, witnesses said.
Gocaj died of scald burns and an assortment of other horrendous injuries, including blunt force trauma, the city’s medical examiner found.
Her death has been ruled an accident.
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